NASA Lunar Mission Successfully Enters Moon Orbit
Tuesday, June 23, 2009 - 23:28
in Astronomy & Space
After a four and a half day journey from the Earth, the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter, or LRO, has successfully entered orbit around the moon. Engineers at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md., confirmed the spacecraft's lunar orbit insertion at 6:27 a.m. EDT Tuesday.